Of course it is! The Internet is full of pedophiles, rapists and emo hipster kids cutting their own legs!
It’s inevitable, your kid will be online at some point. Kids love whatever is trendy and fun, and we all know what that means, Starcraft, IRC, Salon.com and Friendster. In all seriousness though, as a parent, it is your duty to protect your child at all times. Which means at ALL times. Be smart, install some sort of invasive monitoring program if they have their own computer, or limit online time to a location where you can stop by a sneek a peek at what their doing. If they’re a little older, then have the “That dude who says he is 15 and thinks that you are cute is probably a 45 year old man living in his grandmas basement, waiting for you to give him your home address so that he can bring you weed, cheap beer and try to touch you in places that your bathing suit covers” talk.
Here’s the Telegraph’s take on the topic: Is social networking bad for our children?
And yes, that is MC Hammer in the picture (must be legit, in fact, perhaps it is too legit to quit)
And just in case you didn’t get the coming over with weed and beer reference…you need to brush up on pop-culture and do a search on youtube for Chris Hansen:
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